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arXiv:2605.22746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world sensor-based learning systems require uncertainty estimation that is both reliable and computationally efficient. Evidential Deep Learning (E

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Tutorials

Position: The Time for Sampling Is Now! Charting a New Course for Bayesian Deep Learning

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arXiv:2605.21765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The practical adoption of sampling-based inference (SAI) in Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) remains limited, partly due to persistent misconceptions abo

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Post-Training is About States, Not Tokens: A State Distribution View of SFT, RL, and On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605.22731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and distillation are often analyzed throug

Posterior Collapse as Automatic Spectral Pruning

arXiv:2605.22691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that posterior collapse in eta-VAEs implements automatic spectral pruning. A latent mode collapses if its contribution to reconstruction is belo

Predicting Performance of Symbolic and Prompt Programs with Examples

arXiv:2605.21515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM prompting is widely used for naturally stated tasks, yet it is unreliable it may succeed on a few test cases but fail at deployment time. We study p

Prior Knowledge-enhanced Spatio-temporal Epidemic Forecasting

arXiv:2602.22270v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatio-temporal epidemic forecasting is critical for public health management, yet existing methods often struggle with insensitivity to weak epidem

Prior shift estimation for positive unlabeled data through the lens of kernel embedding

arXiv:2502.21194v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study estimation of a class prior for unlabeled target samples which possibly differs from that of source population. Moreover, it is assum

Protein Thoughts: Interpretable Reasoning with Tree of Thoughts and Embedding-Space Flow Matching for Protein-Protein Interaction Discovery

arXiv:2605.21522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) govern nearly all cellular processes, yet computational methods for identifying binding partners typically produce

Prototype-Guided Classification Sub-Task Decoupling Framework: Enhancing Generalization and Interpretability for Multivariate Time Series

arXiv:2605.22055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time Series Classification (TSC) is a long-standing research problem that has gained increasing attention in recent years with the rapid growth of large

Provable Joint Decontamination for Benchmarking Multiple Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.21543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmark data contamination has become a central challenge in LLM evaluation: when evaluation examples appear in the training data of one or more audit

Applications

Provable Robustness against Backdoor Attacks via the Primal-Dual Perspective on Differential Privacy

arXiv:2605.21780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Randomized smoothing is a powerful tool for certifying robustness to adversarial perturbations, including poisoning attacks via randomized training and

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Provably Protecting Fine-Tuned LLMs from Training Data Extraction while Preserving Utility

arXiv:2602.00688v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on sensitive datasets raises privacy concerns, as training data extraction (TDE) attacks can expose highly

Proxy-Based Approximation of Shapley and Banzhaf Interactions

arXiv:2605.22738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shapley and Banzhaf interactions capture the complex dynamics inherent in modern machine learning applications. However, current estimators for these hi

Q-PhotoNAS: Hybrid Quantum Neural Architecture Search Framework on Photonic Devices

arXiv:2605.22097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challen

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more (New York Times)

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c

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Quantitative coronary calcification analysis for prediction of myocardial ischemia using non-contrast CT calcium scoring

arXiv:2605.21745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-contrast computed tomography calcium scoring (CTCS) is widely recognized as an effective tool for cardiovascular risk stratification. This study aim

Quarter million views and counting. OpenAI has no idea how many people they have pissed off.

Quarter million views and counting. OpenAI has no idea how many people they have pissed off. Fuck this OpenAI employee, seriously fuck him. Also read this quantitative study, which I had nothing to do

RADAR: Defending RAG Dynamically against Retrieval Corruption

arXiv:2605.22041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While RAG systems are increasingly deployed in dynamic web search, temporal volatility amplifies their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Existing

[Re] FairDICE: A Fair Tradeoff in Multi-objective Offline RL

arXiv:2603.03454v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an emerging field of RL in which policies are learned solely from demonstrations. Within offline RL, some env

Hardware

Reading Task Failure Off the Activations: A Sparse-Feature Audit of GPT-2 Small on Indirect Object Identification

arXiv:2605.22719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We report a small, reproducible audit of which sparse-autoencoder (SAE) features of GPT-2 small fire differently on failed versus successful trials of t

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Reasoning through Verifiable Forecast Actions: Consistency-Grounded RL for Financial LLMs

arXiv:2605.21975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial markets are characterized by extreme non-stationarity, low signal-to-noise ratios, and strong dependence on external information such as news,

receipt confirming the chicken part of the above:

receipt confirming the chicken part of the above: OpenAI’s “Roon” is officially a chicken, just as I thought. And just like his boss (who has also ducked debates with me). If either actually thought t

receipts for most points can found here, if you read this paper closely: https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440

Gary Marcus references a Nautilus article arguing that deep learning is encountering fundamental limitations, suggesting readers can find supporting evidence and detailed arguments for this perspectiv

Regret-Based (epsilon,elta)-optimal Stopping Criteria for Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2605.22561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a widely used iterative black-box optimization method that utilizes Gaussian process (GP) surrogate models. In practice, B

Reinforced Graph of Thoughts: RL-Driven Adaptive Prompting for LLMs

arXiv:2605.22195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph of Thoughts (GoT), a generalized form of recent prompting paradigms for large language models (LLMs), has been shown to be useful for elaborate pr

Reinforcement learning for ion shuttling on trapped-ion quantum computers

arXiv:2605.22463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scalable trapped-ion quantum computing is commonly realized with modular chips that feature distinct zones with specific functionalities, such as stor

Relational Linear Properties in Language Models: An Empirical Investigation

arXiv:2605.22532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear properties are ubiquitous in the representations of language models; however, testing them experimentally remains a challenging task. This work f

Local Ai

Reliable Wireless Indoor Localization via Cross-Validated Prediction-Powered Calibration

arXiv:2507.20268v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wireless indoor localization using predictive models with received signal strength information (RSSI) requires proper calibration for reliable posit

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Local Ai

Remember to be Curious: Episodic Context and Persistent Worlds for 3D Exploration

arXiv:2605.22814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exploration is a prerequisite for learning useful behaviors in sparse-reward, long-horizon tasks, particularly within 3D environments. Curiosity-driven

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Agents

Replit Agent builds your app. Squidler tests it like a real user. Replit Agent fixes what's broken. That's the full AI QA loop, and it's now…

Replit Agent builds your app. Squidler tests it like a real user. Replit Agent fixes what's broken. That's the full AI QA loop, and it's now live in Replit's MCP library. You describe what your app sh

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Representation Gap: Explaining the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks from a Geometric Perspective

arXiv:2605.21692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Characterizing precisely the asymptotic generalization error of neural networks using parameters that can be estimated efficiently is a crucial problem

Local Ai

Represented Is Not Computed: A Causal Test of Candidate Algorithmic Intermediates in a Transformer

arXiv:2605.22488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured prompts require integrating components according to task-relevant relations. How a network implements this integration is often hard to judge

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Rethinking Forward Processes for Score-Based Nonlinear Data Assimilation in High Dimensions

arXiv:2604.02889v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data assimilation is the process of estimating the state of a dynamical system over time by combining model predictions with measurements. Thi

Retweeting this because there appears to be a coordinated and intellectually dishonest campaign to defame me by misrepresenting my beliefs.

Retweeting this because there appears to be a coordinated and intellectually dishonest campaign to defame me by misrepresenting my beliefs. The case against me below is completely intellectually disho

Revisiting Regularized Policy Optimization for Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Two-Player Games

arXiv:2602.10894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Two-player games such as board games have long been used as traditional benchmarks for reinforcement learning. This work revisits a policy optimizat

Revisiting Robustness for LLM Safety Alignment via Selective Geometry Control

arXiv:2602.07340v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safety alignment of large language models remains brittle under domain shift and noisy preference supervision. Most existing robust alignment method

Richer Bayesian Last Layers with Subsampled NTK Features

arXiv:2602.01279v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bayesian Last Layers (BLLs) provide a convenient and computationally efficient way to estimate uncertainty in neural networks. However, they underes

Applications

Riemannian geometry meets fMRI: the advantages of modeling correlation manifolds and eigenvector subspaces

arXiv:2605.22334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Correlation matrices are fundamental summaries of functional brain networks, yet standard analyses often treat entries independently, ignoring the curve

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RobustSpeechFlow: Learning Robust Text-to-Speech Trajectories via Augmentation-based Contrastive Flow Matching

arXiv:2605.22083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While flow-matching text-to-speech (TTS) achieves strong zero-shot speaker similarity and naturalness, it remains susceptible to content fidelity issu

Rule-State Inference (RSI): A Bayesian Framework for Compliance Monitoring in Rule-Governed Domains

arXiv:2603.21610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Compliance monitoring in rule-governed domains (tax administration, clinical protocol adherence, environmental regulation) faces three structural ob

RWKV-7 G1g is here: the world's best pure RNN LLM, and a competitive LLM in general. Try https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/RWKV-Gradio-2…

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RWKV-7 G1g is here: the world's best pure RNN LLM, and a competitive LLM in general. Try https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/RWKV-Gradio-2 for bsz16 7B inference. G1h in June 🙂 p.s. const 15000+tps

Industry

Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at th

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Sam Altman is rushing to an IPO for OpenAI... ...but if the public markets treat @OpenAI like a traditional business instead of a religion, …

Sam Altman is rushing to an IPO for OpenAI... ...but if the public markets treat @OpenAI like a traditional business instead of a religion, it's game over. 💀💀💀 @sama #openai #chatGPT credit: @Stylosa

Same Architecture, Different Capacity: Optimizer-Induced Spectral Scaling Laws

arXiv:2605.21803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling laws have made language-model performance predictable from model size, data, and compute, but they typically treat the optimizer as a fixed trai

Industry

Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances — Samsung Electr

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Scalable On-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Batch Scaling

arXiv:2605.21557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional wisdom holds that large-batch training is fundamentally incompatible with Reinforcement Learning (RL) - beyond a modest threshold, increa

Industry

Scaling for MHHS: how Octopus Energy achieved a 50x cost reduction in margin data engineering

Octopus Energy reduced margin data engineering costs by 50x through scaling improvements implemented on the Databricks platform for MHHS (Metering, Half-hourly Settlement) operations. The case study d

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SCI-Defense: Defending Manipulation Attacks from Generative Engine Optimization

arXiv:2605.21948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based ranking systems are vulnerable to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) attacks, where adversaries inject semantic signals into product descrip